questions about available commands for monerod (previously called bitmonerod)
Questions tagged [monerod-commands]
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How do I gracefully stop the monerod daemon process?
I started monerod as a background daemon with the --detach flag.
Suppose I want to restart my computer, how do I gracefully stop the process?
Can I just kill it?
Thanks in advance.
dpzz
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How do I start using Monero with the command line tools?
If you need to use the Monero command line tools, how do I get started with Monero?
Ginger Ale
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Throttling/Adjusting Bandwidth in Conjunction with Bitmonerod
When running bitmonerod and using the following bitmonerod bandwidth parameters, is the rate measured in bits or bytes?
limit_up Used within bitmonerod while running.
limit_down Used within bitmonerod while running.
--limit-rate-up Command line…
Patrick Alexander
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Saving the blockchain with monerod
Is there any difference in how the save and exit commands save the blockchain?
Is there any benefit in using the save command before using exit to close bitmonerod?
What is the danger is closing monerod without saving because my computer froze up,…
Logan
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How to enable pruning in the command line of the monero blockchain in version v0.14.1?
Monero v0.14.1 has just been released with pruning. How does one activate it on the command line for ubuntu?
Patoshi パトシ
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For the CLI wallet, how can I teach myself all that it can do?
Monero has motivated me to get interested in Linux. I'm relatively inexperienced with Linux. To those more experienced, this question may seem like a silly one. I expect I'm not the only Linux n00b (well, CLI n00b), so I hope this question helps…
scoobybejesus
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How can I see my hash rate?
I am solo mining using monerod. When I run './monerod show_hr', I am told 'Hash Rate Logging is on', but I can't find the files. Where are they stored in Ubuntu 14.04?
Also, is it possible to redirect the output of this command to the display…
user592440
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Connecting Monero Light Wallet on Tails with Remote Node
I have downloaded Monero Command Line Interface on Tails and I tried connecting it to a remote node with this command as described here: https://github.com/monero-project/monero
Command:
sudo iptables -I OUTPUT 2 -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 -m tcp --dport…
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Purpose of rescan_spent command
What is the purpose of the rescan_spent command? Once I spend an output, why would I need to scan my spent outputs to search for it again?
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If I wanted to run a Monero node would I be able to limit the number of inbound connections?
I remember trying to set one up before and one of the issues I had was trying to limit the number of inbound connections.
edit: by connections, I am referring to the number of peers connected at one time
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What is the best way to pop the top block from the monero blockchain and fix a bad "unknown top block" error in the sync data process?
It appears whilst syncing the blockchain the computer halted resulting in a bad block at the top of the chain.
After restarting no more blocks are being added and just repeated errors. There is probably a way to pop the top blocks off the stack of…
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Who gets monero transaction fees?
I am running a monero node and I would like to know where do the Monero transaction fees go ? Do I need to set something into the monerod node setup to receive transaction fees ?
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Running monero service on WIN10 with custom --data-dir
After few hours of trying, I'm unable to run:
monerod --start-service --data-dir x:\mydir\monerodir
Prior this, service is installed with monerod --install-service and this part goes fine.
Also, I'm tryed to run monerod with custom config…
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How can I check if my node allows incoming connections?
So I finally setup my own Monero full node, and forwarded the port 18080 to my internal host.
How can I check in the monerod log output that the node allows incoming connections?
How long does it take to be listed in the Monero nodes list?…
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As of 0.10.1.0, how do you use monero-wallet-rpc?
Once updating to version 0.10.1.0, in addition to monero-wallet-cli, there is monero-wallet-rpc. What is the difference in usage between the two? What type of commands/arguments that were run previously with monero-wallet-cli should now be run…
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